Project Deep Dive: Microfibre
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I recently started building out a new side project that I am calling microfibre š§¶, it was started partially to scratch an itch to replace Twitter/X with something a bit more personal. Additionally, I wanted to build a quick and easy way to share short updates with my grandparents.
Of note - microfibre is more of a personal product rather than a public social network. It's a neighborhood cafe rather than an industrial chain restaurant! I've built it intentionally to only be used by myself, but that doesn't prevent others from creating similar versions of the same product!
What is microfibre?
microfibre is essentially a bulletin board, it allows me to post short-form (but not limited in length) text updates[1]Jump to footnote, which then get displayed on my personal site under the feed view.
It's currently built using Cloudflare wrangler to power the API, Cloudflare D1 as the datastore, and a Next.js app as the posting client (as well as this Next.js app powering my blog for rendering the feed). There's nothing magical about the project - it's a fairly basic